"A mountain storm is coming. A mountain storm is coming indeed!"
In the Refined Abode where Meng Fuyun lived in Chess Mountain's Inner Valley, the grand artisan from the underworld paced, a faint melancholy on his face and his brows tightly knitted. He had signed a lifelong Attendant Contract with Chess Mountain, binding the latter half of his life to this commercial alliance.
He could tell at a glance that someone had deliberately laid a trap to target him.
The mastermind behind it was naturally Li Chen. But Li Chen was Chess Mountain's enemy, so whatever he did was only to be expected. What truly chilled Meng Fuyun's heart was that people within Chess Mountain were also following suit and spreading rumors.
Those people had either been bought off by Guangyun or bore old grudges against him and were seizing this opportunity to strike.
That was what truly warranted vigilance.
"Master, everyone in the valley is talking about this now. Someone must be stirring up trouble behind the scenes. Should we strictly forbid everyone from discussing it?"
"Exactly! Arrest them all and interrogate them thoroughly about the villains behind them!"
"Those people are infuriating! Master has been upright and honorable all his life, loyal and diligent toward Chess Mountain, never failing in his duties as an attendant. Yet now he's being slandered and gossiped about like this!"
Several disciples could not contain their anger and discussed ways to respond.
One after another, they voiced their support for their master. From where they stood, they naturally refused to believe he could be that sort of person.
"Enough. Keep your voices down. Can't you see Master is troubled already?"
A disciple who understood the situation better lowered his head and transmitted his voice, glaring at the others as he silenced them.
"But..."